Around April 15, 1999

Before and during the Civil War era, marriages were seen as a beneficial contract to, normally, the male spouse. Marriage licenses clearly stated that during the Civil War era people who wanted to marry had to be competent enough to become married, and they had to marry from the same race. Over the decades society has evolved and everything around it, however, it took until the year 2000 for the...

Heidi MacDonald’s article, “House of Semi-Raging Women”, written in the Amazing Heroes series focuses on the skewed, sexist representation of women in comics in the 1980s. This article was written in a time where there were only a limited number of female comic book writers because it was believed that women aren’t as skilled at writing about/drawing superheroes as men (MacDonald)....

Dr. Saundra Tracy was appointed as Alma College’s first woman president in July of 2001 after an unanimous selection by the Board of Trustees. Dr. Tracy became Alma College’s 12th president, replacing Dr. Harold Kilenbrander who was interim president after Dr. Alan. J. Stone retired in December of 2000. Dr. Tracy received a B.A. in Spanish with minors in Sociology and Education from...

In the 1990s, there was an extreme influx of violence and sex in comics. In Amazing Heroes #191, released in June 1991, science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer, Adam-Troy Castro, wrote a review of a series of sex comics. This publication problematizes the majority of these comics for their lack of substance and oversexualization of women. Many of the comics are completely degrading...

In the Fall of 1995 the Los Angeles Times gave a hard look at Los Angeles’ ethnic gulf and noted how the city was balkanizing. The city of Los Angeles has long been a tense place in terms of race-relations. The intermixing of different peoples set the stage for violent race riots in the early 1990s, which were kicked off when Rodney King was beat savagely in 1992 by four LAPD officers and the...

The alumni of Alma College have received multiple awards and honors, been chairs of multiple boards, published works of art and literature, started businesses, and crossed into foreign territory to defend our freedom. To name all the successful alumni of Alma College would be a feat, so only a few alumni will be highlighted. The following alumni have succeeded both during and after their time at...

By the 1990s popular opinion had turned against the stream of immigrants that had begun in the early 1980s, and illegal ones in particular (who amplified all the traditional anti-immigrant accusations of undermining wages and straining public services). In California this resentment was fanned by local politicians, including Republican Governor Pete Wilson - who was staring electoral defeat in the...

Wonda L. Fontenot, 20th century cultural ethnographer, stepped out onto the backwood swamplands of rural southwest Louisiana. This is Opelousas Territority, an area of the U.S. that encapsulates remnants of French, West Africa, and Native American elements. Fontenot is greeted by the son of Tee Begbe, infamous “Secret Doctor”, with the salutation of, “Ca va’?” – “How’s...

Years after civil rights pioneers, like Martin Luther King Jnr., walked the Birmingham streets protesting against segregation and for equal opportunity, influenced black Baptist preachers rewalked the march route in September 1995. Raising awareness for a campaign to increase the black polling population nationwide; march leader Rev. Dr. Henry Lyons hoped black voters would help...

He called it a "rape of history." Birmingham News art critic James Nelson made this charge as part of his plea to the citizens of Birmingham to save the historic Fox building. The Fox once housed one of the city’s many theatres; however, that was not the reason Nelson wanted to save it. The building was an architectural marvel and a structure he believed was Birmingham’s equivalent...